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  • Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State
Natural soaps without antibiotics may be better for you than ones with triclosan. From www.shutterstock.com

Why you should dispense with antibacterial soaps

Sarah Ades, Penn State and Kenneth Keiler, Penn State

The FDA banned the use of 19 antiseptics in hand soaps, saying that the soaps’ makers had not shown that the chemicals did any good. Here’s why the chemicals actually might have been doing harm.

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